We are asking for donations to assist with the increase in requests for help.

Vincentians have been able to respond to those in need quickly and compassionately. A gift to the Vincentian Relief Fund (VRF) will allow us to continue to serve the increase in families who have been financially impacted by these trying times.

The Work We Do

Vincentians Are Called to Love Our Neighbors

Vincentians (those who are members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul) are called to live a life of love of God and neighbor, acknowledging that all people are our neighbors, familiar and strangers alike. This life of love includes prayer and reflections for each day, an attitude of giving and sharing, and an openness to all people in need as our
neighbors.

Vincentians do not differentiate those we help by faith but open our arms to all those who have reached out to us for help.
We don’t just help others who are Catholic, but we reach out to all because we are Catholic. As the word
Catholic means universal. Sometimes our neighbors who call are in need of monetary help to get them through a difficult time in their life. Sometimes our help is in just connecting those in need with existing resources. Sometimes our help is in the form of just being there to listen and to pray with them, and many times it is to help them through the moment, now knowing that they are not alone.

We Need Your Hands, Your Hearts, Your Prayers, and Your Help.Come and See...Please consider joining our conference here at St. Michael Parish or donating to support our work and growth. We meet in the Lake House on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7:15 PM.

The need is great and ongoing. We are working now not only directly with those in need, but also in
legislative advocacy,
by providing
low-interest loans to help those caught in the web of payday loan companies,
by establishing a
Young Vincentians conference, and many upcoming Special Works projects
for the poor among us.

Vincentians (those who are members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul) approach the Commandments, which Jesus gave to us, in a proactive way. The Vincentian lifestyle is based on our core mission to go out to the poor who, in Jesus own words, are always with us.

A Vincentian approaches life with the spirit of Charity of word and action. Always open to the call of the poor, Vincentians reach out and go to those who have reached out to us (where they are). We go two by two, as Jesus instructed the first disciples sent on a mission to pray, listen, support, help, and pray again.

The mission we are on is to bring the love of God to those in their deepest hours of need. And to bring both material and spiritual support together as one in prayerful service.

The actions in the life of Vincentians to those in need are important, and equally as important is following the call of Jesus to obey God’s commandments. This is reinforced in a real way by the ongoing spiritual development of every Vincentian through a life of prayer and the sacraments.

Vincentians Are Called to Live the Beatitudes

Vincentians approach the Beatitudes in terms of their being descriptions of identity rather than moral demands. The Beatitudes embody a radically alternative vision of our society. This is how the kingdom of heaven is at hand: that we appreciate that we are, in ourselves, blessed. Blessed is who we are in Christ. God, indeed, calls us to blessedness and that blessedness is a product of how we live our lives.

In short, we are called to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Such gentleness comes when Christians realize that despite all their sins, God loves them. The balance of gentleness and strength is learned in the schools of prayer and experience. Gentleness is not passivity or spinelessness. Strength is not uncontrolled rage or stoic coldness.

A life of prayerful service helps us to determine when to be gentle and when to be a bit more insistent in helping our friends in need. This always should be the subject of our prayerful discernment.
We are called to be gently strong, and strongly gentle.

Vincentians Have a Special Devotion to Mary

Vincentians have a special devotion to Mary, who stood by Jesus no matter what occurred in His life. From the time of Jesus being brought by His parents to Simeon in the Temple, to the time of His persecution and crucifixion, Mary likely lived with fear of what was to come for her son.

But Mary was able, with the strength of God’s grace, to prevent it from immobilizing her. We are encouraged and strengthened by the witness of her life of witness to her divine Son and how she lived with fear of the suffering she was told would come to “pierce her heart” like a sword.

As a Vincentian, everyone encounters fear of the unknown many times, as we prepare in prayer to visit with a friend in need. One role we play in these situations is to bring a Holy Calm to the fearing with the knowledge that they are not alone. May Mary obtain for each of us the grace of surmounting those fears, which occupy a place in the hearts of every one of us and sometimes paralyze us in showing love to God and to our neighbor.

Vincentians Respond to Jesus

Vincentians reveal Jesus to the world in the ordinary things of life, by doing God’s will. We reveal Jesus identity by the things we do and how we live every day in prayerful caring for those in need. The story of John the Baptist and his recognition of Jesus moves from
knowing who Jesus is, to
really seeing Him as the Messiah, to
testifyingto the truth.

You have heard the expression the hands and heart of Jesus are ours. And, indeed, in the face of poverty of material goods, of mind, and of heart, we are called in our ministry
to bring and to be Jesus to those in need.

The grace of Vincentian ministry is not always necessarily revealed in major works of charity and making huge changes in people’s lives. It occurs many times by the sheer fact that we visit and listen and offer prayerful help.
We know Him in the Eucharist and Scripture and Tradition, we see Him in the face of the poor, we testify to Him by bringing and being Jesus to those in need.

Vincentians Reveal Jesus to the World

Vincentians (those who are members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul) reveal Jesus to the world in the ordinary things of life, by doing God’s will. We reveal Jesus identity by the things we do and how we live every day in prayerful caring for those in need. The story of John the Baptist and his recognition of Jesus moves from
knowing who Jesus is, to
really seeing Him as the Messiah, to
testifyingto the truth.

You have heard the expression the hands and heart of Jesus are ours. And, indeed, in the face of poverty of material goods, of mind, and of heart, we are called in our ministry
to bring and to be Jesus to those in need.

The grace of Vincentian ministry is not always necessarily revealed in major works of charity and making huge changes in people’s lives. It occurs many times by the sheer fact that we visit and listen and offer prayerful help.
We know Him in the Eucharist and Scripture and Tradition, we see Him in the face of the poor, we testify to Him by bringing and being Jesus to those in need.

Vincentians Bring Christ to the Manger

Vincentians literally go to the poor in need. Our visitation teams are dispatched to visit anyone who reaches out to us. We go with some foreknowledge of the situation, as our phone intake people gather information when they call the person back who has reached out for help. But we rarely fully understand the situation until we do the visit. When we visit those in need
where they are, oftentimes we find discouraging situations of housing, home care and living conditions due to the financial and family situations of those we help. Oftentimes the situation our “friends” in need find themselves in is dire and seemingly hopeless and despairing.

Imagine the situation that Mary and Joseph found themselves in! With nowhere else to stay, they found a warm place and brought Jesus into the world in a manger (a place for feeding animals). In a place such as this, they brought us the savior of the world! So, too, it is at those times and places of poverty and deep need that our prayerful presence brings Jesus to those we serve.
The very presence of our visitation teams brings hope and relief to those in need; and it might be the only hope they have.

As we now approach the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, we should always be reminded of the humble beginnings that the Creator of all allowed Himself to be placed in to show us the amazing depth of His love for us.

How do we humble ourselves to show that love to others?

Vincentians Embrace the Cross of Christ

Vincentians know well that the reign of God is
not in power, but in mercy. The cross of Christ is often where we least expect a king to be. Yet this is how God’s kingdom is established and where our discipleship begins.

Jesus demonstrates his kingship
not by power but by loving reassurance that Paradise awaits faithful disciples. We Vincentians, by living our Rule (guidelines set down by St. Vincent for members), literally embrace the cross by
being faithfully present to those in their desperate hour of need and helping them bear their crosses in life.

As seen in today’s gospel, devotion to Christ the King means loving those people whom, when He was on earth, Jesus liked to have close about him—the poor.

Devotion to Christ the King means:

Loving and being servants of the poor in the way and in the spirit with which Jesus served them when He was on earth.

Opposing and rejecting violence in all its forms. Working for peace and reconciliation in our society, for His kingdom is one of love and justice and peace.

Vincentians Live Faithfully and Persevere

As we pray over the words of today’s gospel, it is notable that Vincentians (those who are members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul) do not focus on all the discouragements and events happening in our world, which are at times frightening and disheartening. Instead, as Vincentians, our challenge is
to live faithfully nowin the life situations we face. Vincentians work hard to trust in God and to live by Jesus’s name through unselfish action and prayer.

We believe as disciples that we must never lose the perseverance to face life’s tribulations. We are committed always to work one person at a time, to bring about a better world in which all might live in peace.
Every day is an opportunity to live discipleship fully and confidently. When all is said and done, unity with Jesus
now is the only thing that guarantees unity with Jesus for all eternity. We are pilgrims on the way to heaven. Jesus is our way.

We are following the right way, if Jesus Christ can (at all times) share our thoughts, our words, our actions. You have heard the expression
What would Jesus do? (WWJD). It is interesting that, in the 1500s, it was St. Vincent himself who, in his own words, proposed a simple question to people as a program for their lives:
What would Jesus Christ do, if He were in my place now?

Vincentians Give Hope to the Hopeless

Our Vincentians encounter many who are hopeless during our visits with our friends in need. Our mere presence at the door of someone who may have lost all hope, who has lost hope, who does not know what to do or to whom to turn to for help, brings that hope that we all should have as Christians. Our greeting, our smile, our prayerfulness, our gentle openness to listen may be the first positive thing that has happened to this friend in Christ in a long while. Our clear willingness to be
Jesus living presence to those in need makes a difference and fulfills what Luke speaks about in his gospel on resurrection and new life.

In Luke 20:27-38, we hear about resurrection and the new life it brings. Resurrection is a way of living with surety and hope. Resurrection is surety about eternal life, because we have remained faithful to God.
The basis for our belief in resurrection is HOPE. Although hope always has a future orientation about it, when we have confidence in God’s grace to bring about change in us, when we have patience with ourselves while that change comes about, we already have
something of the future in the present—we are already living this new, resurrected life when we remain faithful to God. The relationship to be celebrated in resurrected life is the relationship of being children of God in an everlasting relationship with the living God. We must have zeal for God and God’s ways such that it is a way of life for us.

God is alive in our works of mercy. God of the living. That is the core of our hope and our optimism. Optimism is a human quality; hope is a spiritual one. A Christian may not always be optimistic about the world, but he need never be without hope, for Jesus Christ has risen and is with us. Therefore, at no time should we be without hope for the future.

A Vincentian Serves with Humility

In this week’s gospel, the tax collector stands far off in humility and prayer outside the temple, feeling unworthy to approach. But his prayer draws him near to God. His justification is addressing God as God and letting God be God.
Humble prayer is a critical part of being a Vincentian. It is part of our lives every day, as well as part of every visit we make to our friends in need.
Our visitation teams pray before making a home visit, and we pray during the home visit with our friends in need.

We pray together before the visit…to God the Father for the opportunity to help, to God the Son to help us bring His love, to God the Holy Spirit to bring us wisdom and understanding to help our friend in need.

Vincentians acknowledge humbly who we are before God. We are sinners in need of mercy. We know that our good works alone do not justify us—but only humility in the face of our all-holy and merciful God brings exaltation.

We are humbled by the opportunity to serve our friends in need, humbled by representing one of the largest Catholic charitable institutions in the world, and humbled to be the eyes and ears and hands and heart of Jesus to those we serve.

Vincentians Have Hearts and Hands Go Together

Vincentians are called to be servants of the poor. And, mercy, says Vincent, is the
proper attribute of God himself.

Mercy is a facet of charity that calls us first to identify in spirit with the other person.

To be compassionate toward the sufferings of our neighbor... Love gains for us an entrance into the hearts of others.

Mercy calls as well for outward signs or gestures.

As St. Vincent observed,
Heart and hand should go together as far as possible. Serve the poor with gentleness, compassion and love.

Gospel Reflection (Luke 17:5-10)
The apostles bring to Jesus the seemingly impossible demands of discipleship. Jesus answers by illustrating what faithful discipleship looks like. The servant has been laboring all day in the field, but more is yet to be done. The work of the disciples is never completed. Discipleship is never-ending.
A Vincentian is a person who is always ready to reach out and help another, even beyond one’s own work load. That person does not judge or condemn others. The faith-filled person sees Jesus in the other and responds to the situation with Jesus’ love and mercy.
Faith is faithfulness in action.

Vincentians Have Eyes and Ears of Compassion

As followers of St. Vincent de Paul, we Vincentians profess to have both an eye and a heart for the suffering poor. We profess and proclaim to show the effective compassion of Jesus Christ toward those who are Lazarus in today’s world. To have an eye and a heart of compassion for the poor is a grace of Jesus Christ. We cannot turn on the compassion of Jesus, as we would water from a tap. As part of our daily prayer, we must humbly ask for that grace of compassion from Jesus Christ.

In today’s gospel (Luke 16:19-31), the rich man pays no attention to the starving and needy at his very doorstep. In complete opposition to this behavior, through prayer and by conscious, proactive charitable living Vincentian values, Vincentians have vigilant eyes and ears that are always
really listening to and really seeing the poor. Acting to do what we can to help in response to God’s word has a double purpose: we not only learn to live but also further God’s kingdom when we respond appropriately with our hearts. Listening and vigilance are part of the decisiveness of discipleship.

Vincentians Have Hearts That Respond

One of the qualities of a true Vincentian is a heart which responds with charity and love to our friends in need. We simply cannot look away. Even if we do not have the answer to the problem or the resources to help as much as we want, we always act with
prudent decisiveness. We will do what we can, and, at the very least, but most importantly, pray for and with our friends in need and connect them with whatever outside resources we can to help them help themselves. A repeated frustration of true Vincentians is we cannot in many cases fix a problem. And we remind ourselves that we are not called to fix, but to help in whatever the best way we can, even if it is only to let the person in need know that we are praying for him/her. Even with a lack of resources when faced with a frustrating
situation, a Vincentian heart does not walk away or give up.

In today’s gospel (Luke 16:1-13), prudent decisiveness means that we recognize that all our choices in daily living are really choices for eternal life. We honestly try to live good lives. When opportunities present themselves to act in a Christian way, most of us respond appropriately, most of the time. This gospel challenges us to take this one step further. With an eye to the future,
we must surrender ourselves to searching out opportunities to live the paschal mystery. There is such an urgency about discipleship that we cannot be passive in any way. Just as Jesus did all He needed to do to make His message known, so must we be as proactive in our own discipleship.

Mercy as a Vincentian Virtue

Another quality of being a Catholic Christian that Vincentians strive for and truly are called to live out is
MERCY.
We seek to grow in spirituality by humbly serving the needs of the poor and the poor of heart. In fact, in The Rule (the Vincentian guide for growing in spirituality) another of the five virtues we subscribe to is that Vincentians strive to
achieve a true mercy through gentleness.

Living a life of mercy is certainly demanding, and, as humans, it is sometimes extremely difficult. Ministry to those in need and truly following Jesus is certainly not about us or our needs, but about becoming one in love with our brothers in need, no matter what, no matter where they are, no matter what the situation, no matter whose fault it is. There is no blame, no “earning it,” just mercy. Mercy requires, just as Jesus is clearly saying in the gospel, a total and ongoing commitment of openness and empathy. And this virtue from time to time requires re-commitment and frequently
repetition.

Gospel Reflection | Luke 15:1-32 One sheep isn’t worth much in comparison to the ninety-nine, yet the shepherd rejoices when he finds it. The message tells us that nothing and no one is insignificant to God. No calculating person would risk ninety-nine for one. But God does not act like us calculating humans—God always acts with the utmost compassion and love. God desires that no one be lost. For this we rejoice and feast. If God is so compassionate and loving with us, then as faithful disciples of Jesus, we must risk being so compassionate and loving with others. First of all, this means that we never judge whether the other is worth our compassion and love. God shows us that all are—even outcasts and sinners. (Living Liturgy, p.208)

As members of our own St. Michael’s Conference, our visitation teams, phone-intake people, and our officers and other members who serve in advocacy, fundraising, and other functions know all too well that “there but for the grace of God go I.” They are all answering the call to identify and serve the needs of the poor who will always be among us.

To be the face of a loving Jesus to those we meet.

Why We Are Called Vincentians

The Society of St. Vincent DePaulisone of the largest Catholic charitable organizations in the world. It is based in Paris, France, with U.S. Headquarters in St Louis, Montana, with conferences and councils in many countries. Members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, or Vincentians, are men and women who strive to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to individuals in need. We are young and old. Regardless of our personal financial status, all of us are blessed with an awareness that our blessings (time, talent, or treasure) are to be shared with our brothers and sisters in need.

During Pope Francis’ visit, he reached Christians and non-Christians alike with his message of helping others. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been putting these words into practice for
more than 170 years.

The Society took on the name of
St. Vincent de Paul as their patron and was
formally founded in 1833 by six Catholic students in the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. They all agreed that they needed to not just discuss their faith, but put it into action, serving the needs of the poor. Soon, it became obvious that the leadership of one of the founders,
Blessed Frederick Ozanam, was especially gifted with the Holy Spirit. He was selected as their second president and leader.
A contemporary and mentor to Blessed Frederick was
Blessed Sister Rosalie Rendu, a daughter of Charity who taught the first members of the society the art of helping the poor and the sick. Frederick named the group the
Society of St. Vincent de Paul after the saint who lived (1581-1660) and whose mentor was
St. Rosalie Rendu, St. Vincent’s collaborator in founding the Daughters of Charity.

The Society in the United States began in 1845 in St. Louis, and it has grown ever since.
Nearly 100,000 trained volunteers provided 12.6 million hours of volunteer service in 2017, helping more than 5.4 million people through visits to homes, prisons, and hospitals at a value of
more than $3 billion dollars.

St. Michael Parish’s conference now consists of over 40 Vincentians and has served over 500 families in our area in the last three years. As one of the first in the Diocese of Richmond, our conference has been instrumental in helping establish five more conferences, with more on the way.

The need is ever present, as Vincentians answer Jesus’ call to be that Good Samaritan. Join us. Become a Vincentian or financially support our work with the poor.

Low-Interest Loan Program

Our conference’s growth continues, and with the broad skill sets of our members here at St. Michael Parish, we continue to look at a number of ways to
move to the next level of service to those in need. In previous bulletins and
Weekly Note to the Flock, we discussed our efforts in service provider networks, legislative advocacy for the poor, etc. Yet there is so much more to do. During our home visits, our teams have repeatedly run into situations where our friend in need is in financial trouble, in danger of utility cut off ,or even worse.
Upon probing the situation, we found that in some cases, in a desperate effort to get cash to pay a rent or a utility or medical bill, our friend has turned to the only source of cash available to them: payday loan companies.

At these companies, a person who is in a bind can get a cash loan, either based on future paychecks or the title value of his vehicle. These companies profit on those people who are desperate for quick funds. They charge outrageous interest rates, which can kite to hundreds of percent, making repayment virtually impossible and tying up the finances of people for years. These companies have proliferated in Virginia, because of this state’s weak regulation on them. Just drive down Broad Street toward the city, and you will see that these places have popped up in many places.

To address this injustice and provide a way out for those friends of ours we encounter who are caught in this trap, our conference will soon be launching a test of our new
Low Interest Loan Program. This program is secured by our conference based on a generous gift from a donor and is being administered by a local community bank, which will work closely both with us and with our friend in need to re-establish credit and financial responsibility. The goal is to help pay off the high interest payday loan, refinance it at a special low interest rate, and rebuild credit.

If you have some financial experience or would like to help us further finance this direct action program, please contact us.

Voice of the Poor (VOP)

As our Vincentian conference here at St. Michael Parish continues to grow in members and in available human resources and skills, we not only continue and expand our work with each individual friend in need, but we are now expanding our efforts to help address some of the basic causes for poverty in our midst, as well.

Because of our growth in member Vincentians and the broad skills of our many members, our conference here is moving to the next level of service to those in need. A core group of our Vincentians has begun to review current and pending local governmental and community efforts to help address poverty and are now looking for ways to help address these issues.

Voice of the Poor (VOP) is a major focus on the part of the National Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The mission of VOP is to continue our core mission to grow in spirituality and faith by helping bring Jesus to those in need and to go a step beyond this, by looking for ways to mitigate root causes for poverty.

VOP is an organizational effort to go deeper into uncovering and addressing the causes of poverty and seeking ways to align our resources and efforts to identify root causes and those conditions which perpetuate poverty, both nationally and locally. Once those causes are identified, we can align resources and efforts of local conferences, councils, and member
Vincentians to support grassroots actions (both legislative and societal) that stimulate and support favorable changes, which can help the poor and marginalized.

Our efforts have just begun and will involve
coordinating and working closely with Catholic action networks, like the Virginia Catholic Conference to support the priorities of our Virginia Catholic Bishops. In this way, we hope to help generate grassroots support to lobby our representatives for or against any legislation at any level which can affect the poor.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise, knowledge, and passion to our new conference level efforts as a Vincentian to help in becoming the Voice of the Poor, please consider joining us.

What's New with Our Conference

A short while ago, a special Ozanam Orientation (named after our founder Blessed Frederick Ozanam) was presented at St. Michael Parish to over 90 Vincentians from across the diocese. In this session, attendees of our five current conferences and three soon to be launched parish conferences in our diocese received a welcome, an orientation, and both history and training on what it means to be a Vincentian. Growth continues.

At our recent annual
Eastern Regional Meeting in Emmitsburg, Maryland, all attendees received strategic updates from our National Headquarters in St. Louis, networked with other Vincentians and attended training on a wide range of current topics. After our closing Mass at the National Shrine Basilica of St Elizabeth Seton, we all returned to our parishes informed, formed, and energized to grow our mission of outreach to those in need.

At this Eastern Regional meeting all conferences, it was acknowledged that the Richmond Diocese is growing new parish conferences of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul faster than any other diocese in the Eastern Region!

The Holy Spirit is truly at work!

Because of our growth as a conference at St. Michael Parish and the broad skill sets of our many members, our conference is now moving to the next level of services to those in need. One of our initiatives is the continued formation of our
Vincentian Service Providers Network (VSPN) by which our conference enlists a wide range of providers of needed services to the poor to offer free or reduced cost services for those in need on a referral basis by our caseworkers.

Can you or your company provide a free service or deep discount goods/services to our friends in need?

Celebrating Three Years of Progress

From our humble beginning, with nine people in conference in Room 101 in the spring of 2017, the Holy Spirit has blessed our Society of St. Vincent de Paul ministry with growth in membership, meaningful outreach, new and much needed ministry opportunities, and, most of all, the spiritual formation of our members as Vincentians.

Over the last three years, our numbers have grown to 45 parishioners who have stepped up as leaders, visitation teams, call
intake /dispatchers, fundraisers, and new program developers.
As Vincentians, we all participate in special ongoing spiritual formation and daily scripture and prayer, and education and training on issues affecting the poor in our midst.

Serving the outreach of our parish and all who call us from six zip codes surrounding St. Michael Parish, our conference has now helped over 500 cases to date, and we continue to work with an ever-growing network of service providers in Richmond and suburbs, both to provide immediate help and, in many cases, to align available local private and government resources with those in need.

With the ongoing support of Bishop Knestout, we continue to help form and train new conferences to help parishes run their outreach in the
Vincentian Way.
We have found that once a parish outreach program takes the Vincentian path, wonderful things begin to happen:

more parishioners get directly involved in outreach

parishioners who haven not previously been involved in ministry have found this hands-on ministry very fulfilling

the daily faith life of members is enriched by following the Vincentian way

parish and local support of this internationally known outreach program has grown

There are currently conferences in Virginia Beach and Roanoke. In the last year, we have helped launch new conferences in Richmond at Sacred Heart Parish and St. Bridget Parish and will soon have conferences at St. Augustine Parish in Chester, a new conference serving three parishes in Charlottesville, and have received requests for formation information from
parishes in Radford, Williamsburg, and Sandbridge.

As the next step in our three-year strategic plan, all these conferences will soon become part of a new
Diocesan Council, which will be formed to provide an increased level of communication and coordination of programs and outreach. As our president Dan Kearns and our Spiritual Advisor Deacon Andy Cirmo often say,
this is truly the work of the Holy Spirit.

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As part of the Mass to celebrate St. Michael’s 25th Anniversary, Father Dan talked about how we as a community come together as one.

It was also the primary theme of the scripture readings last week. This is a central part of St. Vincent de Paul Society's mission. We, as Vincentians, come together with those in need to provide assistance and help each one of us see the value God sees in us.

In the last few months, our conference has provided assistance and service to many families in the Henrico area. We are able to provide such service, because of our Catholic community’s generosity, the parish staff’s guidance, and the many individuals’ willingness to step up and answer God’s call to serve as a Vincentian.

St. Vincent de Paul members (Vincentians) meet with individuals and families face-to-face in order to determine how they best can be served. Some of the services include assistance with food, shelter, utilities, and transportation. Our Society takes assistance one step further by continuing to work with those in need beyond simple financial assistance. We walk with those in need to try and help them determine long-term solutions to the challenges they face. We always will “work to see the face of Christ” in those we serve.

Please consider joining the first St. Vincent de Paul Conference in the Diocese of Richmond’s Central Vicariate. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month in Room 201 at 7 PM.

Help Wanted

Our St. Vincent DePaul Conference is looking for employers who can offer manual-skill jobs. A repeating theme in many of our cases involves people who want to work, have manual skills, but are struggling to provide a steady income for their families.